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Taxpayers vs Bureaucrats: The Looters Fight Back

I’m not sure what to make of the Stewart/Colbert rally this weekend, but one of the sideshow events that definitely cries out for some verbal abuse is the “Government Doesn’t Suck” march that has been organized by overpaid federal bureaucrats. I wonder what signs they’ll carry? Perhaps “Lazy People Have Rights!”? Or how about, “We Deserve Twice the Income of People Who Actually Produce”? I wouldn’t be surprised, however, if this event fizzles out because the bureaucrats are all on break.

Amid growing dissatisfaction with federal employees, a group of younger, web-savvy feds are planning to march on Saturday in defense of their coworkers… Organizers of the “Government Doesn’t Suck March” (their choice of words, not ours) were inspired in part by last week’s Washington Post poll that revealed widespread negative perceptions of federal workers. “We hear it day in and day out: the government sucks, federal employees are lazy and their positions are redundant,” said march organizer Steve Ressler, founder of GovLoop, a social networking Web site for public servants. “It’s time to turn the tables and remind the world that government employees just happen to be people — people that don’t suck,” Ressler said in a message sent to The Federal Eye on Sunday announcing the march. Government workers “are a lot of cool cats” who work hard, listen to good music and watch Stewart’s “The Daily Show,” “but that’s all after they’ve spent a whole day keeping the country running,” he said.

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I vote them in, they take $8 from the most productive people in the country, pay themselves $4 and with the remaining $4 provide me with some services. The services I ultimately receive may be inferior and poorly managed so, true, they are only worth $2. Ok, $8 worth of wealth becomes $2 but that’s better than nothing, once it reaches my household, isn’t it?

So no, for me government does not suck. It also allows me to keep my middle paying job and the politicians I vote for force consumers to pay the inflated prices that my union negotiates, for work that these days as many as half of the 6 billion people on this planet would be capable and willing to do for one quarter of my pay. What’s not to like?

Yes, yes,… I know… “if everybody does as I do how will this country maintain the top productivity responsible for its current top prosperity status”? Good question, but only philosophical. Because what difference will it make if I alone act more honestly? There’s no chance in hell that I alone will be able to affect the overall national outcome. So why be one of the suckers who puts the effort to engage in high value work? For the glory? Most of my extra effort will be confiscated anyway, either now or later in the form of taxes indirect wealth transfers and loss of subsidies. The Titanic is going down. Might as well party while she floats for a while rather than be one of the suckers working in the bowls trying to push out the water with buckets.

So, in a nutshell, no. What I’m going to vote for is MORE government. Not less! Mooch while it lasts! Don’t be one of the suckers! Stop and join the moochers!

Servants who live better than those they serve are not servants. Leaders who don’t suffer alongside those they lead are not leaders. Only a fool thinks we can prosper without a functioning government, but a functioning government is one that does what it’s there for: to lead and to serve its citizens!